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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple in final talks to acquire Beats for $3.2b, deal could be announced next week — According to the Financial Times, Apple is in late-stage talks with Beats to acquire the music streaming and headphone maker for a deal worth $3.2 billion. The deal could be announced as soon as next week, according to the report.
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Thanks:@swb1192. See also Mediagazer| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
50 leading tech investors tells the FCC a pay-to-play internet would kill startups — Venture capitalist are anxiously awaiting the agency's new plan for an open internet — Would it be possible to build the next YouTube or the next Netflix if big ISPs like Comcast and Verizon were allowed …
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See also Mediagazer| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Comcast is the one who should pay for network connections, Cogent claims — Internet backbone operator Cogent has long expressed its displeasure with Comcast's demands for payment in exchange for accepting Netflix video and other traffic.Comcast has argued that the data Netflix sends … | Sam Biddle / Valleywag: |
Goodbye to Katie Cotton, the Queen of Evil Tech PR — After 18 years of spin, Katie Cotton, Apple's magnetically ruthless vice president of worldwide corporate communications, has left her job, and tributes from the tech press are pouring in. What no one will admit is that we were all afraid of her.
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| Dan Lyons / Inbound Hub: |
Apple's Katie Cotton and the art of anti-PR — Katie Cotton announced yesterday that she's leaving Apple. This is a big deal. Cotton was VP of worldwide corporate communications at Apple, and while PR people aren't always seen as super important, Katie Cotton was.| Miyoung Kim / Reuters: |
Samsung's head of mobile design resigns amid lukewarm Galaxy S5 reception — Samsung Electronics replaces mobile design head — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, the world's biggest handset maker, has replaced the head of its mobile design team amid criticism of the latest Galaxy S smartphone.
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| Jenna Wortham / New York Times: |
Snapchat settles with FTC over misleading marketing, address book collection, security breach; no monetary penalty imposed — Snapchat Reaches Settlement With Federal Trade Commission — The disappearing act of messages on Snapchat, the mobile messaging service, has not been as foolproof as the company promised.
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| Tammy Parker / FierceWireless: |
Sprint slams on the brakes for top 5% of data users in congested areas — Sprint's (NYSE: S) pledge of unlimited data is looking increasingly less sustainable, as the carrier maneuvers to rein in network traffic generated by its heaviest data users and ensure quality of service for the majority of its customers.
| Adam Lashinsky / Fortune: |
Reporter offered pre-IPO shares by Arista Networks, considers it another sign of a tech bubble — Yes, we're in a tech bubble. Here's how I know it — When tech startups are willing to offer almost anyone — even a journalist — shares ahead of an I.P.O., a burst isn't terribly far behind.
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| David Peisner / Rolling Stone: |
Markus Persson, a.k.a. Notch, is gaming's biggest rock star. But he may never make a second album — Markus Persson, a.k.a. Notch, is gaming's biggest rock star. But he may never make a second album — It's a wet monday morning in Stockholm, and the door to Markus Persson's office is closed.
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| Josh Lowensohn / The Verge: |
Lyft goes after Uber's black cars with new high-end rides — The rideshare company uses new funds to move beyond fist-bumps and pink mustaches — On an unusually gusty San Francisco day, a beaming new white Ford Explorer sits idling in a tent in front of me.
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Engadget, Re/code, TechCrunch, Business Insider, CNET News, PC World, GeekWire and The Next Web. Tweets: @joshconstine
| William Alden / New York Times: |
Science Inc. buys Delicious from YouTube co-founders' Avos Systems for an undisclosed sum — YouTube Founders to Sell Delicious, a Social Bookmarking Site — The social bookmarking service Delicious has changed hands twice over the last decade, while failing to attract a mainstream audience.
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See also Mediagazer| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Online Learning Marketplace Udemy Raises $32M To Scale Up Internationally — Long time player in the online learning space, Udemy, which has built a skills-based marketplace where individual tutors can sell their skills and learners can get access to courses (both paid and free) …
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| Richard Nieva / CNET News: |
California Senate approves smartphone ‘kill-switch’ bill — After failing in the state Senate two weeks ago, a bill requiring that device makers include antitheft software on phones sold in the state passes muster. — State Sen. Mark Leno and San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon introducing the …
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| Aaron Levie / The Box Blog: |
Box strikes deal with GE to become the default file-sharing service of its 300,000+ employees — General Electric and User-Centric IT — I'm incredibly excited to share that General Electric has chosen Box as its corporate standard for content sharing and collaboration.
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Tweets: @stevesi, @shiraovide, @djtgallagher, @levie and @benedictevans
| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Stock Investment And Wealth Management Service Motif Investing Raises $35 Million — Retail investors in the U.S. looking for ways to play the stock market have several startups offering them services, and now Motif Investing has raised $35 million in late-stage funding from new backers to take its services worldwide.
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| Nick Summers / The Next Web: |
Instapaper freshens up with a new logo, website redesign and text highlighting feature — Instapaper today revamped its save-it-for-later bookmarking service with a brand new logo, website design and text highlighting feature. — The typography used for the old Instapaper logo and app icon … | John Koetsier / VentureBeat: |
OMsignal unveils ‘biometric smartwear’ T-shirts for fitness geeks, quantified selfers, and you — What's next in mobile? Find out at MobileBeat, VentureBeat's 7th annual event on the future of mobile, on July 8-9 in San Francisco. Register now and save $400! — Smart wearables are here, and they're huge.| Politico: |
House Intelligence Committee unexpectedly passes USA Freedom Act text approved by House Judiciary — House intel surprises on NSA surveillance — The House Intelligence Committee passed a version of the USA Freedom Act on Thursday, unexpectedly approving that measure while not holding …
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London black taxis plan congestion chaos to block Uber — Uber launched its car-hire service in London in June 2012 — London black-cab drivers are planning to cause gridlock in the city to protest against car service Uber. — The Licensed Taxi Drivers Association complains that Uber's drivers …
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SiliconBeat, Engadget, Mashable and TechCrunch
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon and USPS expand Sunday delivery to 15 more cities, will reach ‘large portion’ of U.S. this year — Amazon is bringing Sunday delivery to 15 more cities in seven states, expanding an arrangement with the U.S. Postal Service that launched last year in L.A. and New York.| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
ZTE Starts Selling $99 Firefox OS Phone in the U.S., Via eBay — While Firefox OS remains targeted at first-time smartphone buyers overseas, China's ZTE said Thursday it will start selling a model in the U.S. via eBay. — The ZTE Open C is listed for the “Buy It Now” price of $99.99.
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| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
BitPay Is Raising $30M At A $160M Valuation From Index, Richard Branson — We're hearing that BitPay, a platform that processes payments in bitcoin for merchants, is raising the field's biggest round yet. The company is raising $30 million on a roughly $160 million valuation in a round led … Thanks:@anthonyha
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